When I open System Activity (listing the running processes) and click the columns to sort the table, the same sorting indicator corresponds to ascending order for some columns and descending order for others. It seems that the sorting indicator is always the same on the first click, but the actual order varies in different columns. E.g. depending on the widget style, I may see an up arrow/angle when I click on a column, but it corresponds to ascending order for the process name and descending order for the CPU%. The name column seems to match the sorting indicators in Dolphin, while the CPU% column is opposite (and therefore confusing). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open System Activity (default shortcut Ctrl+Esc) 2. Click on the Name column then the CPU% column 3. Notice the sorting indicators and the sorting order
Different widget styles indeed have different arrow directions, because of different preferences by the style authors. See bug 297807 for a lovely discussion. The actual bug about being the columns inconsistent is bug 327399 and related. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 327399 ***